Did anyone notice if ESPN sent anyone to actually report on Media Day or did they just eat lobster and play golf?
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Hired Kevin Ollie. Hired a great, great prospect for a hockey coach. Extended Auriemma's contract. Helped accelerate fundraising for the basketball practice facility.
The man went to Michigan. Don't think he has pride in what he does?
Is there any way I can get into this clambake next year??
Unfortunately, when you're "inked" in, it's easy to take things for granted. Jurich beat him out psychologically.I am sure he is prideful, but we need more than that. It gnaws at me that he monitored from a far the ACC beauty contest for the UMD spot. Say what you will, Jurich burned up the phone lines talking and talking again to anybody who would listen about Louisville during that critical Thanksgiving week last year. Jurich said UConn wasn't penciled in, it was inked in. I don't believe Jurich would say this at the expense of Manuel to pump up his own stature. I believe that was his honest and actual assessment of the situation. It is clear that Manuel could have done more. Whether it would have mattered, we'll never know. But it would not have hurt. That, in and of itself, is troubling and not in the style of a "Rock Star".
Cambake? Where?
Unfortunately, when you're "inked" in, it's easy to take things for granted. Jurich beat him out psychologically.
The one in Newport. RI isn't so bad.
Unfortunately, when you're "inked" in, it's easy to take things for granted. Jurich beat him out psychologically.
The one in Newport. RI isn't so bad.
I am sure he is prideful, but we need more than that. It gnaws at me that he monitored from a far the ACC beauty contest for the UMD spot. Say what you will, Jurich burned up the phone lines talking and talking again to anybody who would listen about Louisville during that critical Thanksgiving week last year. Jurich said UConn wasn't penciled in, it was inked in. I don't believe Jurich would say this at the expense of Manuel to pump up his own stature.
Butch,
Ollie was forced on him over his objections. Cavanaugh has proven exactly nothing so far. He managed to tick off Aurriema before finally signing him. As far as having pride is concerned, his problem isn't having pride in what he does. It is having a clue. His list of failures is at least as long as his successes. At least.
Academically, our potential is the sky. Located right in the "Knowledge Corridor". Only major public university besides UMass located in that area. I am not even sweating it. Gotta play the game.Ain't that the truth... And we know that nothing, absolutely nothing, can be taken for granted in the CR game. All we both know at this point is that UConn is at a very critical juncture. We don't belong there, but there we are. We need everyone involved in Storrs waking up every day and having first on the list - "How do we advance UConn on the CR front today?"
I am afraid he is clueless. SH will not go there, however, because he is her "Rock Star". Further, the rest of the UConn leadership, including the BOT, seem brain dead on the CR issue. Note that there has been ZERO scuttlebutt on the BOT being engaged on this issue at all.
Maybe they were Fishy. But during the same period of time Louisville is doing a media blitz, UConn was... silent. I'm not sure that UConn could have overcome FSU's power play, but the narrative, not just on this board, is that we were out hustled by Jurich and L'ville. As we have seen far, far too often in CR, perception > reality.There is a myth perpetuated here that UConn was not on the phone to anyone and everyone who could help them gain entry into the ACC.
It's inaccurate.
Also, UConn was never 'inked in' as Jurich liked to say during his self-aggrandizing victory lap.
Amazing how UConn can be a lock and yet at the same time we're to believe that Florida State and Clemson were leaving immediately if we were invited.
Freescooter, are you making up fake user names (Sea Goat) and talking to yourself again, agreing with everything you post?
I don't know how great your minds are but in anything JC and KO the two of you are as far apart as possible. One of his big burns about WM.No Matt, I'm here - not a Freescooter pen name.
Do you ever add anything insightful here? Why don't you start by adding - "Well, Freescooter, I guess that you and Sea Goat are proof that great minds think alike!"